HC Deb 18 June 2004 vol 422 c1137W
Lynne Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the oral answer of 15 March 2004,Official Report, House of Lords, columns 1–3, of the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, what export controls were in place at the time of the sale of biological materials to Iraq by the United States. [176578]

Mr. Rammell

The exports of biological materials from the United States to Iraq in the 1980s were licensed by the US Department of Commerce under the (US) Export Administration Act.